Dog stops play at Leicestershire as title race heats up: county cricket, day three – live

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Lancashire’s off-on-off wicketkeeper – sent to Essex on loan – collects fifty, he and Akhter frustrating Yorkshire with an unbroken eighth wicket partnership of 60. Essex 157-7, still 233 behind.

A wave to the Guardian’s Will Unwin who rang the five minute bell today at Old Trafford, asked by a unwary steward who didn’t know the red rose fury within. Dhariwal and Taylor have now stretched the lead to 215, which feels enough already although conditions are looking easier.